''It is against our civilization to use fanfare to announce
a pregnancy. Pregnant women also should not go around in public
with those bellies. It's not aesthetic'', Inancer said on public
TRT 1 TV channel.
''After seven or eight months, future mothers should only
leave the house by car with their husbands to get some fresh
air, and only in the evening. Instead we see them all over
television. It's unpleasant. This is not realism, it's
immorality''.
The program presenter thanked him with ''May God listen to
you''.
Secular Turks immediately took to social media, with #Omer
Tugrul Inancer trending instantly. Activists have called for a
protest on Istanbul's Istiklal Avenue, near Taksim Square, with
a pillow under their clothes in solidarity with pregnant women.
''They must stop interfering with women in this country. If
they could, they would rule on the very air they breathe'',
thundered Aylin Nazliaka, a Social Democrat.

''Inancer says it is unpleasant to see pregnant women on the
street. But isn't it unpleasant hearing the premier say women
must have at least three children?'' protested secular
nationalist Mehmet Oktay, accusing TRT of having become a mere
mouthpiece of the Islamic government.
Islamist Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan has more than once
called on Turkish women to have at least three children in the
name of national growth, berating abortion and cesareans.
The Grand Mufti, who heads the Religious Affairs
Directorate, intervened.

''Religion does not call for the isolation of women,
pregnant or otherwise. Becoming a mother is a gift from God'',
he said. ''However, pregnant women should dress carefully, as
all women should, and not wear garments that reveal the belly or
the lower back''. (ANSAmed).